Sunday, September 25, 2016

New York parish promotes ‘Catholic’ gay activist rally that includes Mass

New York parish promotes ‘Catholic’ gay activist rally that includes Mass

Note: any Church teaching Vatican II is not Catholic

A "Catholic" parish is promoting a pro-homosexual “Pilgrimage of Mercy”
and not planning on denying its participants Holy Communion when they
attend Mass as part of the pro-LGBT event in October. The parish is also
hosting a speaker from the nation’s leading homosexual lobby group, the
Human Rights Campaign, today. The Archdiocese of New York declined to
comment on both events.

The “Pilgrimage of Mercy” event
is organized by a group of gay and lesbian University of Notre Dame
alumni whose idea for the “pilgrimage” was “inspired by Pope Francis.” A
walk around Central Park and rally will culminate with the group
attending Mass at the Church of St. Paul the Apostle, which is run by
the Paulist Fathers. Pastor Father Gilbert Martinez confirmed to
LifeSiteNews that the participants will be allowed to receive Holy
Communion if they wish.
The pre-Mass rally will feature an Obergefell v. Hodges plaintiff, an openly homosexual priest who was recently barred from ministry by his archbishop, the executive director of New Ways Ministry, and a Notre Dame alumnus who was also an Obergefell plaintiff and is “married” to another man.
The alumni group sponsoring the “pilgrimage” is the Gay and Lesbian
Alumni/ae of the University of Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s College
(GALA-ND/SMC).
“My only comment would be that the Church of Saint Paul the Apostle
welcomes all people to all of the Masses,” Paulist Father Gilbert
Martinez, the pastor of St. Paul’s, told LifeSiteNews on September 21
via email. “The fact that some people may attend an issue-oriented event
before attending Mass does not change that welcome.”
“In this particular case, it is not correct to say the 12:30 p.m.
Mass on Sunday, October 2, at the Church of St. Paul the Apostle is
being ‘co-opted,’” he continued. “In the online details about this
event, the Mass time is provided for informational purposes. No group is
speaking at the Mass, but may be attending mass. In regard to the
receipt of Holy Communion by all those at this particular Mass, that
matter lies with the conscience of each person receiving the sacrament.
The Church's guidelines for receiving Holy Communion are listed in the
missalettes provided at the Church.”
On September 22, the parish sent out a mass email advertising the LGBT event.
“Join us on Sunday, October 2 for a pilgrimage to celebrate and
recognize LGBT faithful Catholics in the United States during this
Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy,” the announcement to the parish
email list said. “The pilgrimage begins on the Upper East Side at 69th
St and 5th Ave, proceeds through Central Park, and ends at St. Paul's in
time for the 12:30PM mass. This event is organized by the Gay and
Lesbian Alumni of the University of Notre Dame and St. Mary's College.”
The same email invited “all” to attend “a reception with ‘After
Obergefell’ Conference participants and viewing of the Opening Art
exhibit, ‘Beauty’ in the Church.” Parishioners and attendees can “meet
Lizabeth Melendez Rivera, the Director of Latino/a and Catholic
initiatives for the Human Rights Campaign, Margie Winters of Stand With
Margie, and other guests. This will be a great chance for OSP folks to
meet and spend time with leaders who are doing their best to amplify
LGBT rights in the Catholic community!”
An online copy of the St. Paul the Apostle parish bulletin
for September 25 also advertises the October 2 “pilgrimage” which will
“celebrate and recognize LGBT faithful Catholics in the United States
during this Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy.”

Parish has a history of pro-gay advocacy

“There could be no better time than this Extraordinary Jubilee Year —
only the third in Catholic history — for The University of Notre Dame
and the Catholic bishops around the US to join in a show of mercy and
compassion for LGBT Catholics, who continue to be marginalized,”
GALA-ND/SMC wrote on its website promoting the pilgrimage event. “The
University of Notre Dame, through the leadership of Fr. Ted Hesburgh
CSC, has had a long history of leadership in supporting civil and human
rights. We ask that they demonstrate that same type of leadership now
when it comes to welcoming LGBT Catholics into their community and be
more inclusive of LGBT students and alumni.”
David Swinarski, a 2001 Notre Dame graduate and board member of St.
Paul’s “gay & lesbian ministry” Out at St. Paul, will also speak at
the rally. The Paulist parish advertises the group as its gay and
lesbian ministry “which seeks to engage our Catholic faith through
service to our community, social activities and the exploration of
Catholic spirituality.”
According to St. Paul’s website, the group works to “enrich the
spiritual and intellectual needs of G&L [gay and lesbian]
Catholics,” “build a positive community spirit and provide a safe and
nurturing environment for G&L parishioners at St. Paul’s,” and
“leverage the talents of G&L parishioners to focus on needs within
the G&L community in NY.”
Out at St. Paul’s organizational website
indicates that the group has attended “Pride Masses” and a Mass at St.
Paul’s to “pray for the intentions of the LGBT community.”
The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches that homosexual acts are
“intrinsically disordered” and “under no circumstances can they be
approved." It adds, “They are contrary to the natural law. They close
the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine
affective and sexual complementarity” (CCC 2357).
The Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith’s document Considerations Regarding Proposals to Give Legal Recognition to Unions Between Homosexual Persons says Catholics have a “duty” to oppose same-sex “marriage”:

In those situations where homosexual unions have been legally
recognized or have been given the legal status and rights belonging to
marriage, clear and emphatic opposition is a duty. One must refrain from
any kind of formal cooperation in the enactment or application of such
gravely unjust laws and, as far as possible, from material cooperation
on the level of their application. In this area, everyone can exercise
the right to conscientious objection.

Regarding the reception of Holy Communion, the Catechism of the
Catholic Church teaches, “Anyone conscious of a grave sin must receive
the sacrament of Reconciliation before coming to communion” (CCC 1385).Canon 916 of the Code of Canon Law also instructs Catholics not to present themselves for Holy Communion if they are in a state of mortal sin.During the early 2000s, many U.S. bishops instructed priests to deny Holy Communion to gay activists who wore rainbow sashes at Mass to make a political statement.
“Since this issue is at the parish level, we will not be responding
separately,” Paul Snatchko, manager of marketing and communications for
the Paulist order, told LifeSiteNews in an email.
“We will not be making a statement at this time,” Joseph Zwilling,
Director of Communications for the Archdiocese of New York, told
LifeSiteNews in an email.
A number of groups that openly advocate against Catholic teaching on
human sexuality, including the Human Rights Campaign, Dignity USA,
GLAAD, and New Ways Ministry are listed as sponsors of the “Pilgrimage
of Mercy.”
Following the “pilgrimage,” GALA-ND/SMC will host a fundraiser for
its LGBT Student Scholarship Fund, which awards scholarships to students
who advocate for the LGBT cause at Notre Dame and St. Mary’s.

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Go forth confidently then, you knights, and repel the foes of the cross of Christ with a stalwart heart. Know that neither death nor life can separate you from the love of God which is in Jesus Christ, and in every peril repeat, "Whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's." What a glory to return in victory from such a battle! How blessed to die there as a martyr! Rejoice, brave athlete, if you live and conquer in the Lord; but glory and exult even more if you die and join your Lord. Life indeed is a fruitful thing and victory is glorious, but a holy death is more important than either. If they are blessed who die in the Lord, how much more are they who die for the Lord!

How secure, I say, is life when death is anticipated without fear; or rather when it is desired with feeling and embraced with reverence! How holy and secure this knighthood and how entirely free of the double risk run by those men who fight not for Christ! Whenever you go forth, O worldly warrior, you must fear lest the bodily death of your foe should mean your own spiritual death, or lest perhaps your body and soul together should be slain by him.

Indeed, danger or victory for a Christian depends on the dispositions of his heart and not on the fortunes of war. If he fights for a good reason, the issue of his fight can never be evil; and likewise the results can never be considered good if the reason were evil and the intentions perverse. If you happen to be killed while you are seeking only to kill another, you die a murderer. If you succeed, and by your will to overcome and to conquer you perchance kill a man, you live a murderer. Now it will not do to be a murderer, living or dead, victorious or vanquished. What an unhappy victory--to have conquered a man while yielding to vice, and to indulge in an empty glory at his fall when wrath and pride have gotten the better of you!

But what of those who kill neither in the heat of revenge nor in the swelling of pride, but simply in order to save themselves? Even this sort of victory I would not call good, since bodily death is really a lesser evil than spiritual death. The soul need not die when the body does. No, it is the soul which sins that shall die.

The knight of Christ, I say, may strike with confidence and die yet more confidently, for he serves Christ when he strikes, and serves himself when he falls. Neither does he bear the sword in vain, for he is God's minister, for the punishment of evildoers and for the praise of the good. If he kills an evildoer, he is not a mankiller, but, if I may so put it, a killer of evil. He is evidently the avenger of Christ towards evildoers and he is rightly considered a defender of Christians. Should he be killed himself, we know that he has not perished, but has come safely into port.

Once he finds himself in the thick of battle, this knight sets aside his previous gentleness, as if to say, "Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord; am I not disgusted with your enemies?" These men at once fall violently upon the foe, regarding them as so many sheep. No matter how outnumbered they are, they never regard these as fierce barbarians or as awe-inspiring hordes. Nor do they presume on their own strength, but trust in the Lord of armies to grant them the victory.

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